I am impressed with the quality of fan art produced by SailorBee's contests. Crunchyroll should share the fan art on their Facebook pages to show the rest of the internet how talented the Crunchyroll community is. Not only do many of the Crunchyrollers rock as cosplayers, but some are talented musicians and artists.

Hey I'm posting now because my scanner is not working (keeps crashing) and I'm scared I won't be able to upload my work in time. Ugh what will happen if I can't get this uploaded by midnight. I've been working for 2 weeks on this. >_<

Edit: So I got my scanner to work! It's just a shame I didn't get to do as much as I wanted to with this. I guess because I spent so long on the type I never got to do a back cover.

The title was hand lettered by me and then I polished it up in illustrator. I think it's the most successful part since I spent the longest on it. I was trying to imagine how to portray a jazz feel with typography. =)

Background illustration also by me. Inked by hand. The smaller typeface I incorporated is 'a la nage'.

Hope it's ok, I want to try and make it even better on my own time!

2nd Edit: I started to fiddle with it a bit just because I hated Kaoru's face getting cut off (it didn't look as bad in my sketch but it did on the computer) and one thing led to another and now I'm so much happier with it:

Update: I just can't help but keep playing around with this! Here's the latest version.

Final Update: This is IT! This is the original vision I had in mind. Since the series is set in the 60's I wanted to design a cover for a vinyl album, so that's why I added the weathering to it... as if it's been kicking around since the 60's. I'm a crazy person, so I couldn't rest until I also printed and assembled it so I could see how it would look in real life. I included my favorite drumstick in one of the pics! Enjoy. =)

Edit: My cover image wasn't showing up anymore for some strange reason, so I had to reupload it:

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YOU WON THE SCRIPT, CONGRATS. Yours really is amazing!! Please please please cherish that script for me T.T